JP Morgan

JPMorgan has been selling profitable securities to prop up second-quarter results after the bank’s chief investment office and the trader known as the London Whale incurred billions in losses. The asset sales may be tax inefficient, and will deprive the lender of future gains, which is just too bad for Jamie Dimon’s firm.

With its share price down 18 percent from the day before the trading losses were first reported, JPMorgan is under pressure to generate earnings. - More